Post by Logan on Apr 26, 2016 2:03:05 GMT -6
DENVER — Mandatory vaccination opponents have helped defeat a Colorado proposal to start a database tracking children who haven’t been immunized.
The state House backed off the proposed database Monday, when it was scheduled for a vote. The legislative maneuver means the database proposal is dead for the year.
Democratic sponsors had enough support to steer the database through the House. But the proposal faced certain death in the GOP Senate, where some Republicans complain the state Health Department has already overreached by contacting parents about their children’s immunizations.
“The public health of Colorado was not enough to convince opponents of the bill,” said Rep. Dan Pabon, a Denver Democrat who proposed the database. “The politics around the ‘I word,’ or immunizations, just got to be too intense.”
Read more: www.greeleytribune.com/news/21754828-113/vaccine-database-proposal-fails-in-colorado-legislature
The state House backed off the proposed database Monday, when it was scheduled for a vote. The legislative maneuver means the database proposal is dead for the year.
Democratic sponsors had enough support to steer the database through the House. But the proposal faced certain death in the GOP Senate, where some Republicans complain the state Health Department has already overreached by contacting parents about their children’s immunizations.
“The public health of Colorado was not enough to convince opponents of the bill,” said Rep. Dan Pabon, a Denver Democrat who proposed the database. “The politics around the ‘I word,’ or immunizations, just got to be too intense.”
Read more: www.greeleytribune.com/news/21754828-113/vaccine-database-proposal-fails-in-colorado-legislature